1. See for example the highly detailed descriptions of the Jack-in-the-Green tradition in London in Joseph Struts,Glig gamena Angel—Theod, or Sports and Pastimes of the People of England(London, 1801), pp. 315–16; William Hone,The Every-Day Book(London: William Tegg & Co., ND), 1, cols 583–85, and Charles Dickens,Sketches by Boz(London: Chapman & Hall Ltd, 1910), I, pp. 203–05. Although songs were also widely collected from unnamed members of the ‘peasantry’ by antiquarians, they were far from being seen as the exclusive or even most desired providers of material. Mrs Brown of Falkland, a minister’s wife and daughter of a professor, was for example a major source of eighteenth-century Scottish ballads, and though she was rather concerned at this being publicized, her social status was seen as an advantage by collectors (see David Harker,Fakesong: The Manufacture of British Tolksong’, 1700 to the Present Day(Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1985), p. 59, for a discussion of this, and p. 63 for James Hogg’s intention of privileging texts thought to be written ‘by ladies, and those generally the best’).